Piano Concerto No. 2
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Piano Concerto No. 2 refers to the second piano concerto written by one of a number of composers:
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101 is one of the composer's more accessible compositions for audiences. It is especially notorious for being one of the most difficult pieces in the repertoire....
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven)The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19, by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed primarily between 1787 and 1789, although it did not attain the form it was published as until 1795. Beethoven did write another finale for it in 1798 for performance in Prague, but that is not the finale...
in B-flat major - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment. It is separated by a gap of 22 years from the composer's first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878 and completed it in 1881 while in Pressbaum near...
in B-flat major - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Chopin)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Chopin)The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, is a piano concerto composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. Chopin wrote the piece before he had finished his formal education, at around 20 years of age. It was first performed on 17 March 1830, in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist. It was...
in F minor - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Liszt)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Liszt)Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A major, S.125, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it repeatedly. The fourth and final period of revision...
in A major - Piano Concerto No. 2 (McDowell)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mendelssohn)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mendelssohn)The Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, was written in 1837 by Felix Mendelssohn and premiered at the Birmingham Festival of 1837, an event that also saw the premier of Mendelssohn's St. Paul Oratorio. He had already written a piano concerto in A minor with string accompaniment , two concertos...
in D minor - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mozart) in B-flat major
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 in 1912 and completed it in 1913. Performing as solo pianist, he premiered the work on August 23 the same year at Pavlovsk. Most of the audience reacted intensely...
in G minor - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rautavaara)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rautavaara)Einojuhani Rautavaara wrote his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1989. The work is in three, linked movements, with the central slow movement longer than the outer movements combined...
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with the composer as soloist on 2 December 1900...
in C minor - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)The Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 by Camille Saint-Saëns, was composed in 1868 and is probably Saint-Saëns' most popular piano concerto. It was dedicated to Madame A. de Villers née de Haber. At the première, the composer was the soloist and Anton Rubinstein conducted the orchestra...
in G minor - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1957 for his son Maxim's 19th birthday. Maxim premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory...
in F major - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44, was written in 1879-1880. It was dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein, who had insisted he be allowed to perform it at the premiere as a way of making up for his harsh criticism of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Rubinstein was...
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